Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clarkis an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, notably serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth18 December 1927
CountryUnited States of America
Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
There's too much violence in the country, there's too much division and too much pressure on the court. The project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place.
No lawyer Saddam Hussein has known before the U.S. invasion has seen him, ... He never has had anything approaching counsel of his own choosing?. There has been no ability to begin to prepare a defense.
There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear?
We will be back in court on December 5 and we will demand protection of the counsel.
Cutting off the president (Saddam) was absolutely unwarranted. He has international rights to a public trial.
We've had 10 years of malnutrition and sickness,
Both commanders were courageous enough to fight more powerful countries.
What was the government doing? What's the meaning of this?
What was the government doing? ... (FBI agents) had absolutely no regard of the lives of any of the people in there. All they had to do was wait them out.
I've been in many unpopular cases where there's been high community prejudice against the defendants, but here everybody has been hurt, and everybody is angry,
The whole environment in the country is so violent and threatening it's impossible for it to function.
This case presents as great a challenge of the possibility of a fair trial as any you're likely to see because the emotions are so intense,
A fair trial in this case is absolutely imperative for historical truth.